| 3¹ | A pin-point pass bobbled toward FELLOWS and his deadly shot floated narrowly wide. |
| 6¹ | A drive from BROWN seemed a certain goal but the Crewe Alexandra 'keeper managed to punch the ball clear. |
| 8¹ | A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming Crewe Alexandra 'keeper. |
| 12¹ | NOMBE fired a right foot shot just beyond the near post from twenty-five yards out. |
| 13¹ | TWINE dribbled round MORRIS and poked a tame shot over. |
| 14¹ | PITMAN worked the ball to NOMBE, HUGHES collected his cross and nodded the ball within easy reach of the Crewe Alexandra 'keeper. |
| 14¹ | The Rochdale 'keeper dived to his right to save an accurate drive from Crewe Alexandra's WATSON. |
| 16¹ | GOAL!! A short clearance fell to BROWN who sliced a shot goalward, luckily SINCLAIR was on hand to hammer the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Rochdale)| 19¹ | SINCLAIR touched the ball through a crowd of players but BOOTH was a match for it as he dived to his left. | | 31¹ | GOAL!! A long clearance by the Rochdale 'keeper beat the Crewe Alexandra defence and TWINE slammed the ball beyond the oncoming Crewe Alexandra 'keeper. (2-0 Rochdale)| 33¹ | A shot from SINCLAIR held little difficulty for BOOTH. | | 35¹ | GOAL!! A cross from TWINE was headed away by MORRIS only for NOMBE to tap the ball back into the box for FELLOWS to force into the net. (3-0 Rochdale)| 39¹ | GOAL!! A long ball from TAYLOR down the middle was collected by the lurking TWINE who flicked a right foot shot into the net. (4-0 Rochdale)| 43¹ | A good ball from JONES on the left was collected by TAYLOR who sliced his shot wide. | | 2² | GOAL!! A clever set-piece enabled SOWERBY to crack the ball into the net. (4-1 Rochdale)| 5² | A penalty box scramble resulted in PITMAN cracking a low shot wide. | | 15² | NOMBE snapped at an easy chance. | | 16² | WATSON beat four Rochdale players and fired an effort over. | | 17² | RACIC stabbed an easy chance past the far post. | | 17² | A tame strike from WATSON bounced agonisingly wide. | | 20² | TAYLOR's shot was well held by the 'keeper. | | 34² | TAYLOR shot over. | | 38² | GOAL!! Rochdale were awarded a penalty after a foul on TWINE and NOMBE put it past the 'keeper sending him the wrong way. (5-1 Rochdale) | | | | | |